My brother Patrick sat on his bed and waited patiently for me to begin. As I held the speech in my right hand, I felt the page c
rinkle between my fingertips. I read my speech loudly, but my brother shook his head disapprovingly. He told me I didn’t sound confident enough. With a heavy heart, I knew I was in for a long day of practicing. Write a few lines of dialogue based on this narrative.
"Okay, start whenever you're ready, Em." "Good morning fellow students. As your class president, i would like to...um...bring up a very...uh...pressing matter. There has been an...um-" "Stop right there." "Why? Did I do something wrong?" "Well, not necessarily, but you're lacking something." "I thought it was a good intro, but maybe I shouldn't get to the point so quickly-" "No, no, the actual speech is great, but you seem to be really nervous." "Patrick, I have to recite this from memory to my entire class! Of course I'm nervous!" "It's perfectly okay to be nervous but its something else... Wait! I got it! Its your confidence. You are the class president, take charge! Its a great speech, but deliverance is what makes it an amazing speech."
The answer for this problem would be J. Innocent should stay as “innocent”, there doesn’t need to be a comma after today and the comma is acting just fine in the place it is in.
